Science: Can the Earth Capsize?

Scientists seem to enjoy making people's flesh creep with predictions of
horrible catastrophesscheduled for millions (or billions) of years in
the future. Last week Electrical Engineer Hugh Auchincloss Brown of
Douglaston, N.Y. warned (and got his theory broadcast by the normally
cautious New York Times') that the earth is about to upsetany minute
nowlike an overloaded canoe. The trouble, Brown believes, is the
weight of ice accumulating in the Antarctic: the earth is bottom-heavy.

Engineer Brown first got alarmed when he heard that woolly mammoths had
been found frozen in Siberia. Their healthy appearance and the good
cold-storage quality of their flesh...